Prevalence of depressive symptoms in older nursing home residents with intact cognitive function in Taiwan.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument, the Preferences for Care near the End of Life (PCEOL) scale. Following a literature review and using the domain-referenced approach and a test grid, a large pool of items was generated to reflect five dimensions of preferences for care near the end o...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Gauthier DM,Froman RD

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hospitals, nurses provide patient care around the clock, but the impact of night staff characteristics on patient outcomes is not well understood. The aim of this study was to examine the association between night nurse staffing and workforce characteristics and the length of stay (LOS) in 138 veterans affairs (VA)...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： de Cordova PB,Phibbs CS,Schmitt SK,Stone PW

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in distress within couples who have experienced the sudden death of a child were examined. Results from two independent samples (N = 50 couples and N = 60 couples) were compared. The SCL-90-R and the BSI were used to measure global psychological distress and distress in nine symptom dimensions. Paired t te...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Moriarty HJ,Carroll R,Cotroneo M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of an individualized scheduled toileting (IST) program on incontinent, memory-impaired elders being cared for at home. Using a 2 x 2 mixed design analysis of variance (group by time), 118 patients were randomly assigned to experimental or control groups. C...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Jirovec MM,Templin T

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A within-subjects, counterbalanced, repeated measures design was employed to determine the effects of gender and six different types of verbal and tactile stimuli on the arousal of 24 infants hospitalized for congenital heart disease during their first 6 months of life. Infants were systematically assigned to differen...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Weiss SJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how cancer patients manage the side effects of chemotherapy, so 48 cancer patients in chemotherapy were randomized into four groups to determine their self-care behaviors. The first group received drug information only; the second group received information on side-effect management techniques (S...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Dodd MJ

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose in this study was to describe Black adolescent mothers' decisions regarding condom use and non-use with their male sex partners, including their children's fathers. Research on partner type and condom use has been insufficiently focused on understanding the specific influence that the biological father of ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Nelson LE,Morrison-Beedy D,Kearney MH,Dozier A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women's self-efficacy for coping with breast cancer is one of the key factors that lead to successful breast cancer survivorship. Due to the cultural stigma linked to breast cancer (e.g., breast cancer is a genetic disease), Asian Americans are known as a high-risk group within breast cancer survivors. However, health...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Im EO,Yi JS,Kim H,Chee W

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the relationships among perceived job stress, job satisfaction, and psychological symptoms of critical care nurses. A self-administered questionnaire was sent to a sample of 180 critical care nurses from eight hospitals. The results supported the hypotheses that higher levels of perceived job stress ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Norbeck JS

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) are immunoregulatory cytokines that mediate many aspects of the acute phase response to infection and injury. It has been hypothesized that these cytokines mediate the onset of the cachexia-anorexia syndrome with tumor growth. The anorexigenic effects of IL-1 are me...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： McCarthy DO

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of extensive research on cancer and the family, little is known about the process of taking on the caregiving role when a family member is diagnosed with cancer. Family caregiver role acquisition was investigated in a grounded theory study of 19 family caregivers and 20 persons with cancer, interviewed across...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Schumacher KL

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, parents describe siblings' adjustments to a brother's or sister's hospitalization. The families of children hospitalized for relatively usual, non-life-threatening reasons were investigated. The relationship between patterns of sibling participation and family structure and sibling response were explore...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Knafl KA

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on older inmates' health is fragmented and insufficiently developed. In this integrative review, 21 research articles on health and older inmates were identified, critiqued, and synthesized to determine: the minimum age criterion most commonly used; health-related variables explored; health status; the ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Loeb SJ,Abudagga A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several definitions and categorizations of home environmental modification strategies exist, previous researchers have not addressed whether the conceptualizations developed by clinicians and researchers match the way families think about how they modify the home environment in order to provide care to frail ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Messecar DC,Archbold PG,Stewart BJ,Kirschling J

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A predictive model of well-being and self-care was tested with 284 women aged 60-88 living in rural communities in Taiwan. The variables studied were age, marital status, social class, social support, perceived health, self-care agency, self-care behavior, and perceived well-being. The model was tested by path analysi...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Wang HH,Laffrey SC

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is a powerful analytic tool, but there continue to be abuses of the method. We review assumptions and illustrate legitimate uses of ANCOVA, and summarize statistical packages' approach to the method. Finally, we consider how ANCOVA is used in contemporary nursing research. ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Owen SV,Froman RD

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to adapt the Body Image Quality of Life Inventory (BIQLI) into Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and to assess the psychometric properties of the adapted version. Construct validity was assessed by correlating the BIQLI-BP scores with the Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale, with Burns Specific Health Sc...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Assunção FF,Dantas RA,Ciol MA,Gonçalves N,Farina JA Jr,Rossi LA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anger expression modes were examined in a diverse sample of mid-life men and women (N = 139) participating in the third phase of a longitudinal study of health that began in 1982 at the World's Fair and a metropolitan general hospital in Tennessee. Contrary to previous studies, men and women did not differ in the like...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Thomas SP

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social support has emerged in the last decade as a significant health behavior and, therefore, a promising focus of theory development in nursing. Nursing's concern with health, environment, and person provides an ideal perspective from which to take the lead in research, instrument development, and theory constructio...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Tilden VP

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses caring for elderly patients often need to select support surfaces that reduce the likelihood of pressure ulcers, but there is little information about the effectiveness of different support surfaces. This randomized trial compared two support surfaces and investigated patient attributes related to the risk of d...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Kemp MG,Kopanke D,Tordecilla L,Fogg L,Shott S,Matthiesen V,Johnson B

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with heart failure (HF) typically live in the community and are cared for at home by family caregivers. These caregivers often lack supportive services and the time to access those services when available. Technology can play a role in conveniently bringing needed support to these caregivers. The purpose o...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Hirschman KB,Bowles KH,Garcia-Gonzalez L,Shepard B,Walser TJ,Thomas GL,Stawnychy MA,Riegel B

更新日期：2020-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relationship between sexual assault and gynecological health symptoms (e.g., pelvic pain, painful intercourse) in a sample of predominately African American female veterans. Those who had been sexually victimized experienced significantly more frequent gynecological health symptoms than those who had n...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Campbell R,Lichty LF,Sturza M,Raja S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prognostic communication is a primary component of goals of care conversations in palliative care (PC) practice. Little is known about these conversations in the natural setting. This study's aim was to describe the processes of prognostic communication in PC goals of care consultations. Using line-by-line qualitative...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Norton SA,Metzger M,DeLuca J,Alexander SC,Quill TE,Gramling R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we examined the association between job demands (JD), job resources (JR), and serum levels of a possible biomarker of stress, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6). According to the buffer hypothesis of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, we expected that job resources-defined as job aut...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Falco A,Dal Corso L,Girardi D,De Carlo A,Comar M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postpartum measure, What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like, was administered to explore the development of maternal role for mothers (N = 76) at 1, 3, 4 1/2, and 6 months postpartum. Individual differences were relatively stable across time and accounted for much more variance than time effects. Mean scores on ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Grace JT

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined African American women's representations/beliefs about mental illness, preferred coping behaviors if faced with mental illness, whether perceived stigma was associated with treatment-seeking, and if so, whether it was related to beliefs and coping preference, and whether these variables differed by age gro...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Ward EC,Heidrich SM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Running motivated by an addictive mechanism may overpower the sensible, beneficial approach to exercise. Neglect of family responsibilities and relationships may occur as a result of this addiction. Thirty-five marathon runners and their spouses were studied; 22 of the runners were women and 13 were men. Each runner a...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Rudy EB,Estok PJ

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the use of higher-order factor analysis to examine the underlying dimensions of an instrument designed to measure community acceptance of nurse practitioners/physician's assistants. The instrument consisted of both dichotomous and Likert scale items. Use of factor analysis with dichotomous data is...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Baldwin KA,Grinslade MS,Baer LC,Watts P,Dinger MK,McCubbin J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how African-American mothers' discussions with their adolescents about sex moderated the relationship between adolescents' sex-based discussions with their friends and adolescents' involvement in sexual behaviors. The 425 African-American adolescents were 12 through 15 years of age and had participated in ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： DiIorio C,McCarty F,Denzmore P,Landis A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses' turnover intention is not dichotomous; it may reflect intent to leave the profession, intent to leave a type of facility, or intent to leave a specific workplace. In a latent class analysis (LCA) of data from 186 licensed nurses (RNs and LPNs) recruited from 25 nursing homes (NHs) in Taiwan, we classified nurs...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Chen IH,Brown R,Bowers BJ,Chang WY

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00